If you're looking for a tropical vacay in a glass, you can't go wrong with lychee liqueur cocktails. Sweet, floral, and lightly acidic, lychee liqueur is the perfect smooth ingredient to add pep to your cocktails. So dust off your flip-flops, spritz on some sunscreen, and head to your backyard for a sweet, tropical break.
Easy Lychee Liqueur Drinks
If you want your lychee vacation and you want it now, these quick lychee highballs will come together in a flash with just a few ingredients and no shaking or special equipment required.
Lychee-Coco Spritz
This simple summer spritz is sweet, refreshing, and reasonably low-alcohol. Boost it with some vodka if you want, or sip on this tropical delight just as written.
Ingredients
- Ice
- 2 ounces lychee liqueur
- Coconut seltzer water
Instructions
- Fill a highball glass with ice.
- Add lychee liqueur.
- Top off with coconut seltzer. Stir.
Lychee Lemon Fizz
This sweet and sparkling take on lemonade is the perfect low-alcohol blend of sweet, sour, and floral.
Ingredients
- Ice
- 2 ounces lychee liqueur
- 3 ounces lemonade
- Club soda
Instructions
- Fill a highball glass with ice.
- Add lychee liqueur and lemonade. Stir.
- Top off with club soda.
Lychee Palmer
Meet Arnold's sister, Lychee. It's a refreshing tropical twist on a classic.
Ingredients
- Ice
- 2 ounces lychee liqueur
- 3 ounces lemonade
- 3 ounces iced tea
Instructions
- Fill a highball glass with ice.
- Add the lychee liqueur, lemonade, and iced tea.
- Stir.
Lychee Sparkler
Lychee adds interest to a simple champagne cocktail.
Ingredients
- 2 ounces Kwai Feh lychee liqueur, chilled
- 4 ounces sparkling wine, chilled
Instructions
Combine the ingredients in a Champagne flute and stir.
6 Cocktails Made With Lychee Liqueur
Lychee plays well with other tropical fruits and all kinds of hard liquors and fruit juices, and it can turn a classic cocktail into something extra tasty. These lychee cocktails have a few more ingredients and usually require a shaker or blender, but they're worth the tiny bit of extra effort, we promise.
Lychee Mango Frozen Daiquiri
Mango and lychee? Yes, please! This drink tastes like Hawaii.
Ingredients
- ¾ ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
- ¾ ounce lychee liqueur
- 1½ ounces rum
- ½ cup mango chunks
- 1 cup crushed ice
- Mango slice for garnish
Instructions
- In a blender, combine all ingredients.
- Blend until smooth.
- Pour into a cocktail glass and garnish with a mango slice.
Lychee Mojito
Mint and lychee are a refreshing combination in this twist on a classic.
Ingredients
- 10 mint sprigs
- ¾ ounce lychee liqueur
- ¾ ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
- 1½ ounces rum
- Ice
- 3 ounces sparkling water or club soda
- Mint and peeled lychee for garnish
Instructions
- In a cocktail shaker, add the mint sprigs and lychee liqueur.
- Muddle.
- Add the lime juice, rum, and ice.
- Shake.
- Strain into a rocks glass filled with ice.
- Add the sparkling water.
- Garnish with additional mint sprigs and peeled lychee.
Cherry Lychee Rum Cocktail
This is so sweet and delicious. The lychee and the cherry make for a complex but tasty drink.
Ingredients
- ¾ ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
- ½ ounce simple syrup
- 1 ounce Lichido liqueur
- ½ ounce Luxardo cherry liqueur
- 1 ounce dark rum
- Ice
- 3 ounces club soda
- Cherry for garnish
Instructions
- In a cocktail shaker, combine the lime juice, simple syrup, lychee liqueur, cherry liqueur, and dark rum.
- Add the ice and shake.
- Strain into a Collins glass filled with ice. Add the club soda and stir.
- Garnish with a cherry.
Lychee Storm
In this intriguing cocktail, lychee adds a tropical hint to the dark flavors of the rum and the bite of ginger. It's spicy, sweet, and delicious.
Ingredients
- Ice
- ¾ ounce Lichido liqueur
- 1½ ounces dark rum
- 4 ounces ginger beer
- Lime wedge for garnish
Instructions
- Fill a Collins glass with ice.
- Add the lychee liqueur, dark rum, and ginger beer. Stir.
- Serve garnished with a lime wedge.
Lychee Vodka Martini
No list of lychee cocktails would be complete without a lychee martini.
Ingredients
- ¾ ounce lychee liqueur
- 3 ounces vodka
- Ice
- Peeled lychee for garnish
Instructions
- Chill a martini glass.
- In a mixing glass, combine the lychee liqueur and the vodka.
- Add ice and stir.
- Strain into the chilled martini glass.
- Garnish with a peeled .lychee
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Lychee-Coconut Cocktail
Lychee and coconut is the perfect marriage of two tropical flavors.
Ingredients
- ¾ ounce lychee liqueur
- ¾ ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
- 1½ ounces coconut rum
- 1 ounce dark rum
- Ice
- 3 ounces ginger ale
- Peeled lychee and mint sprig for garnish
Instructions
- In a cocktail shaker, combine the lychee liqueur, lime juice, Malibu rum, and dark rum.
- Add the ice and shake to chill.
- Strain into a Collins glass filled with ice.
- Add the ginger ale and stir.
- Garnish with the peeled lychee and a mint sprig.
Lychee boasts a crisp taste that must be experienced to fully appreciate. The balance between acidity and sweetness, along with hints of rosy fragrance, is unique and delicious.
Mixers for Lychee Liqueur
While lychee is an exotic flavor, it still pairs well with all sorts of mixers. Mix and match these lychee liqueur mixers to create your own slice of lychee heaven.
- Lemon-lime soda
- Cola
- Ginger beer
- Ginger ale
- Iced tea
- Lemonade
- Limeade
- Coconut water
- Flavored seltzers
- Club soda
- Cream soda
- Sake
- Vanilla vodka
- Pineapple juice
- Orange juice
- Mango juice
- Guava juice
- Peach nectar
- Prosecco
- Champagne
- Moscato d'Asti
- Coconut water
Lychee Liquors
Liqueurs containing lychee generally have a relatively low alcohol percentage, at roughly 21% (42 proof). Many people enjoy drinking the liquors neat because of their light taste, absence of alcohol burn, and well-balanced sweetness that doesn't overwhelm the palette.
Liqueurs available containing the exotic fruit include:
- Soho lychee liqueur, a popular product from France
- Kwai Feh, a product made by De Kuyper that is light pink
- Lichido liqueur, a fascinating combination of cognac, vodka, and exotic fruits, including lychee, white peach, and guava
Destination Lychee
You don't have to fly to the islands to enjoy their tropical flavors. So mix up a lychee liqueur cocktail that'll have you on island time in no time.
